My First Encounter with Risk Communication

My Encounter with Quantum Computing An Introduction to Quantum Computing

My scientific first-born

Some vignettes from the career of Professor Bezalel Peleg. More than fifty years ago, during the academic year 1957–1958, I assisted Prof. Shmuel Agmon in an undergraduate course on the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, in the mathematics department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Agmon gave the lectures, and I was in charge of the exercises. Every week I would assign exercises ...

My first suture.

council of India defines internship as “a phase of training wherein a graduate is expected to conduct actual practice of medical and health care and acquire skills under supervision so that he/she may become capable of functioning independently” (1). It is meant to serve as a bridge between the theoretical learning of a medical student and the practical skills of a trained physician. It is also...

Galileo encounter with 951 gaspra: first pictures of an asteroid.

Galileo images of Gaspra reveal it to be an irregularly shaped object (19 by 12 by 11 kilometers) that appears to have been created by a catastrophic collisional disruption of a precursor parent body. The cratering age of the surface is about 200 million years. Subtle albedo and color variations appear to correlate with morphological features: Brighter materials are associated with craters espe...

Chemokines and HIV: The First Close Encounter

The first “close encounter” between the fields of chemokines and HIV occurred in the late spring of 1995, when my group at NCI’s Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology (LTCB) received from Harvard Microchemistry and Proteomics the amino acid sequences of three peptide fragments from an HPLC-purified fraction that we had submitted a few weeks earlier. The sequences showed a perfect match with the huma...